All The Bright Places


By Jennifer Niven



I'll reveal it in the beginning- you need to read this book twice. The storyline might feel somewhere along the lines of John Green, and that it makes it better. I didn't realise that the protagonist, Theodore Finch, through his diary entries, exhibits symptoms of Bipolar disorder, much like how we fail to identify mental issues in and around ourselves. Even Violet Marky, the other protagonist doesn't, while fighting demons of her own, struggling to get over the death of her sister. This book has an ending but whether happy or not, will be a personal opinion, such are the endings of stories in our lives.



With few side characters, this book focuses on two souls only. Theodore Finch can't sleep and loves collecting morbid facts about the way people die. Violet Markey was supposed to be that popular girl who has everything in her life sorted, but her sister's death kills her will to live too. One goes wayward without the stability of life in him, the other is willing to embrace and revitalize her life, but needs to be taught how to. Violet and Theodore find peace in each other. They begin a relationship and an adventure and Violet finds herself healing gradually, but Theodore?



This book makes me wonder if I could have done anything for them. The solution goes unanswered for me, but they eventually find the answers for themselves.


Buy the book here: All The Bright Places

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